to include as a necessary circumstance, condition, or consequence; imply; entail: This job involves long hours and hard work.
2.
to engage or employ.
3.
to affect, as something within the scope of operation.
4.
to include, contain, or comprehend within itself or its scope.
5.
to bring into an intricate or complicated form or condition.
6.
to bring into difficulties (usually fol. by with): a plot to involve one nation in a war with another.
7.
to cause to be troublesomely associated or concerned, as in something embarrassing or unfavorable: Don't involve me in your quarrel!
8.
to combine inextricably (usually fol. by with).
9.
to implicate, as in guilt or crime, or in any matter or affair.
10.
to engage the interests or emotions or commitment of: to become involved in the disarmament movement; to become involved with another woman.
11.
to preoccupy or absorb fully (usually used passively or reflexively): You are much too involved with the problem to see it clearly.
12.
to envelop or enfold, as if with a wrapping.
13.
to swallow up, engulf, or overwhelm.
14.
a.
Archaic. to roll, surround, or shroud, as in a wrapping.
b.
to roll up on itself; wind spirally; coil; wreathe.
[Origin: 1350–1400; ME involven < L involvere to roll in or up, equiv. to in-in-2+ volvere to roll; see revolve]
—Related forms
in·volve·ment, noun
in·volv·er, noun
—Synonyms 1. necessitate, require, demand. 6, 7, 9.Involve,entangle,implicate imply getting a person connected or bound up with something from which it is difficult to extricate himself or herself. To involve is to bring more or less deeply into something, esp. of a complicated, embarrassing, or troublesome nature: to involve someone in debt. To entangle (usually passive or reflexive) is to involve so deeply in a tangle as to confuse and make helpless: to entangle oneself in a mass of contradictory statements. To implicate is to connect a person with something discreditable or wrong: implicated in a plot.
1382, from L. involvere "entangle, envelop," lit. "roll into," from in- "in" + volvere "to roll" (see vulva). Originally "envelop, surround," sense of "take in, include" first recorded 1605. Involved "complicated" is from 1643.
connect closely and often incriminatingly; "This new ruling affects your business"
2.
engage as a participant; "Don't involve me in your family affairs!"
3.
have as a necessary feature; "This decision involves many changes" [syn: imply]
4.
require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent" [syn: necessitate] [ant: eliminate]
5.
contain as a part; "Dinner at Joe's always involves at least six courses"
6.
occupy or engage the interest of; "His story completely involved me during the entire afternoon"
7.
make complex or intricate or complicated; "The situation was rather involved"
to require; to bring as a result Example: His job involves a lot of travelling.
Arabic:
يَشْتَمِل على
Chinese (Simplified):
必须包括
Chinese (Traditional):
需要
Czech:
vyžadovat
Danish:
involvere; medføre
Dutch:
met zich meebrengen
Estonian:
kaasa tooma
Finnish:
edellyttää
French:
nécessiter
German:
einschließen
Greek:
απαιτώ, συνεπάγομαι
Hungarian:
maga után von, vmivel jár
Icelandic:
hafa í för með sér
Indonesian:
memerlukan
Italian:
implicare, comportare
Japanese:
伴う
Korean:
(필연적으로) 포함하다
Latvian:
ietvert; būt saistītam
Lithuanian:
reikalauti
Norwegian:
kreve, medføre
Polish:
wymagać, pociągać za sobą
Portuguese (Brazil):
acarretar
Portuguese (Portugal):
envolver
Romanian:
a cere
Russian:
подразумевать
Slovak:
vyžadovať
Slovenian:
zahtevati
Spanish:
suponer, implicar
Swedish:
medföra, innefatta, innebära
Turkish:
gerektirmek
involve2[inˈvolv]verb
(often within or with) to cause to take part in or to be mixed up in Example: He has always been involved in/with the theatre; Don't ask my advice — I don't want to be/get involved.
Im*ply"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Implied; p. pr. & vb. n. Implying.] [From the same source as employ. See Employ, Ply, and cf. Implicate, Apply.]1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. [Obs.] "His head in curls implied." --Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is proved, a mulicious intention is implied. --Bp. Sherlock. When a man employs a laborer to work for him, . . . the act of hiring implies an obligation and a promise that he shall pay him a reasonable reward for his services. --Blackstone. 3. To refer, ascribe, or attribute. [Obs.] Whence might this distaste arise? If [from] neither your perverse and peevish will. To which I most imply it. --J. Webster. Syn: To involve; include; comprise; import; mean; denote; signify; betoken. See Involve.
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